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Moreover, because many Canadian poets still seem self-consciously caught up in creating the 'great Canadian poem', the national literary monument, those qualities of irony and wit, as distinct from broad humour and whimsy, that often characterize short poems tend not to be so highly prized. For the most part, Canadian poets - P.K. Page and Pat Lowther are two BC exceptions - are more likely to honour Whitman than Dickinson. Obviously short poems are best suited for epigrammatic insights into public life, the verbal equivalent of a good political cartoon, as also for thumbnail sketches of people, animals or cityscapes. Just as in painting, sometimes, an oil sketch or an apparently slight drawing will elicit an atmosphere, a charm and a sense of transience denied to the more solemn, fully finished masterpiece - think Rembrandt, Watteau, Goya, Daumier - so too, I hope, some of these snapshots will capture, in passing, aspects of everyday life that we otherwise might have forgotten to see.\u003cp\u003eThe way I have divided up the book is arbitrary, basically by subject matter rather than by theme, but unlike a regular book of poetry where one eventually reads the whole work, these poems invite random dipping. If some of them give the reader momentary pause, I shall be satisfied\u003cem\u003e. 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Pulling from a wide range of experience and memories but always anchored in the particular and the familiar, the poems in Moorings confront aging and death head-on, while also celebrating the spiritual sustenance of friendship and memories in our steadily changing world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51051981898001,"sku":"NIN9781773861272","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52153876513041,"sku":"NGR9781773861272","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53356782190865,"sku":"GOR014873001","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53356782420241,"sku":"GOR014872998","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1773861271.jpg?v=1750929048"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-christopher-levenson.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}